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Hawton, Nottinghamshire

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Hawton, Nottinghamshire

Hawton is an English civil parish of some 70 inhabitants. It is situated to the south of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, near the River Devon. It played an important part in the English Civil War as a Roundhead encampment against the Royalist stonghold in Newark, and a redoubt earthworks are still visible within the village. It is most famed for the parish church of All Saints, built in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Administrative County

Nottinghamshire

Traditional County

Nottinghamshire

OS Grid

SK7851

OS Settlement Classification

Other settlement (village, hamlet etc)

Region

East Midlands

Country

England

Police Authority

Nottinghamshire

Other names by which Hawton, Nottinghamshire has been known in the past

Holtone ~ Houtune

Hawton, Nottinghamshire in John Bartholomew's "Gazetteer of the British Isles" (1887)